Gamers or victims: how can you ‘play the game’ on benefits if you don’t know the rules?

McNeill, J. (2017). Gamers or victims: how can you ‘play the game’ on benefits if you don’t know the rules?

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Portrayals of welfare users being lazy and work-shy, manipulating the system to receive support, are common. Drawing on research, Jenny McNeill explains the extent to which cynical manipulation is present in the conduct of welfare support recipients.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2017 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	23 Mar 2017
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70402

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H Social Sciences (General)
HB Economic Theory
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
JN101 Great Britain

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Gamers or victims: how can you ‘play the game’ on benefits if you don’t know the rules?

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